Velodyne Lidar, Inc.

Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR) reached public markets in September 2020 through a business combination with Graf Industrial Corp., a blank-check company sponsored by Graf Acquisition Corp., making it one of the earliest lidar pure-plays to list via a SPAC transaction. The San Jose-based company designs three-dimensional lidar sensing systems for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and industrial automation, operating in the automotive technology and sensing hardware sector. On February 3, 2023, Velodyne filed an 8-K disclosing developments related to its all-stock merger with competitor Ouster, Inc., a transaction that ultimately closed that same month and resulted in the combined entity operating under the Ouster name. Sign up at SpacDesk for full filings, sponsor data, and deal analytics on Velodyne Lidar and the broader SPAC universe.